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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 165, NO. 64 | Tuesday November 25, 2008
InDEX
2 · News Digest
4 · Opinion
7 · Sports
12 · Classifieds
13 · Crossword
16 · Lifestyle
Thanksgiving: Learning to
appreciate the rarae positives
in life. PAGE 4
Saving Turkeys: This installment
of Two Guys and a Yeti finds Charlie
in Bora Bora. PAGE 16
By alexandra tilsley
Daily Trojan
Members of the U.S. Armed Forces will now have the
opportunity to become chartered financial analysts while
serving in the military, thanks to an innovative program
offered by the USC Marshall School of Business and the
Chartered Financial Analyst Society of Los Angeles.
While the two organizations began streaming online
lectures in January 2006 for their CFA Review Program,
designed to help individuals earn their CFA certification,
they only recently began to think of extending the pro-gram
to military servicemen. Being CFA certified is an
internationally recognized designation that measures
the abilities of financial analysts.
“Often we don’t appreciate what they’re going through,
particularly active servicemen,” said Larry Harris, di-rector
of the Center for Investment Studies at Marshall
and co-director of the CFA Review Program. “For people
serving abroad or on a ship board or something like that,
a lot of them are going to get out of the service at some
point ... We figured we could provide them a service at
no cost to us.”
The program will allow on-duty members of the mil-itary
to access the online media from anywhere in the
world, preparing them to take the CFA exams. The CFA
designation is one of the most prestigious designations
in the financial world.
“Anybody who wants to be a serious player in invest-ment
management or financial analysis or corporate fi-nance
— you’ve got to have a CFA these days,” Harris
said.
CFALA hopes the program will help servicemen inter-ested
in investment careers ease the transition to civilian
life. Harris added that with the economy struggling, he
expects a huge premium on financial analysts as the cur-rent
on-duty servicemen are getting out of the military.
And less than two weeks after the program was an-nounced,
five servicemen have enrolled in the online
Soldiers get
crash course
in business
Soldiers abroad will have the opportunity to take
Marshall School of Business classes online.
By christianna kyriacou
Daily Trojan
Phi Kappa Psi and Alpha Gamma Omega
kicked off their memorial blood drive
Monday to honor the memory of a friend
both fraternities shared.
The organizations are participating in
the USC vs. UCLA blood drive, with Monday
and Tuesday dedicated to the memory of
Chase Edler, a USC student who died af-ter
a skateboarding accident just before
Thanksgiving in 2006.
Edler was part of Phi Psi and Campus
Crusade at USC.
“When Chase passed away, our two
houses experienced the tragedy together,”
said Dane McLeod, who was a close friend
of Edler’s and current president of Phi Psi.
When Edler was hospitalized following
his accident,, his family and friends became
inspired to donate blood for him and others
in need — an effort that eventually sparked
the idea of hosting a campuswide drive.
Phi Psi also held a blood drive in Edler’s
honor last year, but this is the first time the
two fraternities have coordinated their ef-forts
and have incorporated them into the
rivalry drive with UCLA.
“The overall goal of the event is to come
together in support. Even though we’re a
part of different student organizations,
Fraternities host blood drive to honor a friend
Organizers hope to double last year’s
number of donations with extra day.
| see drive, page 3 |
Brandon Hui | Daily Trojan
Giving · A USC student participates in a blood drive hosted by two fraternities in memory of Chase Edler, who died in 2006.
By Laura nelson
Daily Trojan
Senior Tim Fehr will tell you right
away that the Los Angeles economy
makes him a little nervous.
Next August, the international re-lations
major will start his job some-where
in Los Angeles as a Teach for
America secondary social sciences
teacher.
But the Los Angeles United School
District, where 54 percent of Los
Angeles corp members end up teach-ing,
is currently facing a mid-budget
crisis of $300 billion, a hiring freeze,
potential school closings and layoffs.
And although his school assignment
hasn’t been finalized, Fehr is getting
nervous that he might end up teach-ing
in the school system.
“The budget situation in the
LAUSD is so heinous, I don’t really
know what’s going to happen,” Fehr
said. “But I guess no job is ever really
guaranteed anymore.”
But Fehr hopes that as an employ-ee
of Teach for America, which of-fers
full salary and benefits to college
graduates who teach in struggling
U.S. public schools, he might have a
better chance of keeping his job in
the shaky market.
Fehr isn’t the only college senior
thinking that. From 2007 to 2008,
Teach for America reported a 36 per-cent
increase in applications, from
18,000 to almost 25,000. Last year,
Teach for America placed 2,900 new
teachers in their education corps;
this year, they will increase that
number to 3,700.
And USC students are jumping on
board. Though no official numbers
are available for this year until the
organization receives its final round
of applicants in February 2009,
the number of accepted USC stu-dents
for the 2009-2010 school year
has already risen significantly, said
Melissa Simon, recruitment director
for Teach for America’s Southern
California team.
“We’ve definitely seen the num-ber
of applicants go up from previous
years at USC,” Simon said.
By this year’s first application
deadline, Sept. 19, 64 USC students
applied; by the second deadline, Nov.
7, 76 more had sent in applications,
Simon said.
Recruitment Communications
Director Lorraine Anderson said
that “the economy is clearly one fac-tor”
in this application upswing —
such a large increase in fact, that for
the first time, the organization has
instated a waitlist for the 2009-2010
school year.
“The turmoil in the market has
opened up a lot of possibilities for
people in terms of options they would
consider professionally,” Anderson
said. “And we’ve seen unprecedent-ed
interest in Teach For America this
year.”
But other members of the Southern
Teach for America recruits on the rise
Despite an LAUSD hiring
freeze, the organization is
seeing an influx of new recruits.
| see teach, page 3 |
| see classes, page 3 |
Nationwide
USC
36% increase in applications from 2007 to 2008
18,000 applicants in 2007
25,000 applicants in 2008
2,900 applicants accepted in 2007
3,700 projected applicants accepted in 2008
Sept. 19 deadline: 64 applicants
Nov. 7 deadline: 76 applicants
Jenny McCorkle | Daily Trojan
SPORTS EXTRA PAGE 7

Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 165, NO. 64 | Tuesday November 25, 2008
InDEX
2 · News Digest
4 · Opinion
7 · Sports
12 · Classifieds
13 · Crossword
16 · Lifestyle
Thanksgiving: Learning to
appreciate the rarae positives
in life. PAGE 4
Saving Turkeys: This installment
of Two Guys and a Yeti finds Charlie
in Bora Bora. PAGE 16
By alexandra tilsley
Daily Trojan
Members of the U.S. Armed Forces will now have the
opportunity to become chartered financial analysts while
serving in the military, thanks to an innovative program
offered by the USC Marshall School of Business and the
Chartered Financial Analyst Society of Los Angeles.
While the two organizations began streaming online
lectures in January 2006 for their CFA Review Program,
designed to help individuals earn their CFA certification,
they only recently began to think of extending the pro-gram
to military servicemen. Being CFA certified is an
internationally recognized designation that measures
the abilities of financial analysts.
“Often we don’t appreciate what they’re going through,
particularly active servicemen,” said Larry Harris, di-rector
of the Center for Investment Studies at Marshall
and co-director of the CFA Review Program. “For people
serving abroad or on a ship board or something like that,
a lot of them are going to get out of the service at some
point ... We figured we could provide them a service at
no cost to us.”
The program will allow on-duty members of the mil-itary
to access the online media from anywhere in the
world, preparing them to take the CFA exams. The CFA
designation is one of the most prestigious designations
in the financial world.
“Anybody who wants to be a serious player in invest-ment
management or financial analysis or corporate fi-nance
— you’ve got to have a CFA these days,” Harris
said.
CFALA hopes the program will help servicemen inter-ested
in investment careers ease the transition to civilian
life. Harris added that with the economy struggling, he
expects a huge premium on financial analysts as the cur-rent
on-duty servicemen are getting out of the military.
And less than two weeks after the program was an-nounced,
five servicemen have enrolled in the online
Soldiers get
crash course
in business
Soldiers abroad will have the opportunity to take
Marshall School of Business classes online.
By christianna kyriacou
Daily Trojan
Phi Kappa Psi and Alpha Gamma Omega
kicked off their memorial blood drive
Monday to honor the memory of a friend
both fraternities shared.
The organizations are participating in
the USC vs. UCLA blood drive, with Monday
and Tuesday dedicated to the memory of
Chase Edler, a USC student who died af-ter
a skateboarding accident just before
Thanksgiving in 2006.
Edler was part of Phi Psi and Campus
Crusade at USC.
“When Chase passed away, our two
houses experienced the tragedy together,”
said Dane McLeod, who was a close friend
of Edler’s and current president of Phi Psi.
When Edler was hospitalized following
his accident,, his family and friends became
inspired to donate blood for him and others
in need — an effort that eventually sparked
the idea of hosting a campuswide drive.
Phi Psi also held a blood drive in Edler’s
honor last year, but this is the first time the
two fraternities have coordinated their ef-forts
and have incorporated them into the
rivalry drive with UCLA.
“The overall goal of the event is to come
together in support. Even though we’re a
part of different student organizations,
Fraternities host blood drive to honor a friend
Organizers hope to double last year’s
number of donations with extra day.
| see drive, page 3 |
Brandon Hui | Daily Trojan
Giving · A USC student participates in a blood drive hosted by two fraternities in memory of Chase Edler, who died in 2006.
By Laura nelson
Daily Trojan
Senior Tim Fehr will tell you right
away that the Los Angeles economy
makes him a little nervous.
Next August, the international re-lations
major will start his job some-where
in Los Angeles as a Teach for
America secondary social sciences
teacher.
But the Los Angeles United School
District, where 54 percent of Los
Angeles corp members end up teach-ing,
is currently facing a mid-budget
crisis of $300 billion, a hiring freeze,
potential school closings and layoffs.
And although his school assignment
hasn’t been finalized, Fehr is getting
nervous that he might end up teach-ing
in the school system.
“The budget situation in the
LAUSD is so heinous, I don’t really
know what’s going to happen,” Fehr
said. “But I guess no job is ever really
guaranteed anymore.”
But Fehr hopes that as an employ-ee
of Teach for America, which of-fers
full salary and benefits to college
graduates who teach in struggling
U.S. public schools, he might have a
better chance of keeping his job in
the shaky market.
Fehr isn’t the only college senior
thinking that. From 2007 to 2008,
Teach for America reported a 36 per-cent
increase in applications, from
18,000 to almost 25,000. Last year,
Teach for America placed 2,900 new
teachers in their education corps;
this year, they will increase that
number to 3,700.
And USC students are jumping on
board. Though no official numbers
are available for this year until the
organization receives its final round
of applicants in February 2009,
the number of accepted USC stu-dents
for the 2009-2010 school year
has already risen significantly, said
Melissa Simon, recruitment director
for Teach for America’s Southern
California team.
“We’ve definitely seen the num-ber
of applicants go up from previous
years at USC,” Simon said.
By this year’s first application
deadline, Sept. 19, 64 USC students
applied; by the second deadline, Nov.
7, 76 more had sent in applications,
Simon said.
Recruitment Communications
Director Lorraine Anderson said
that “the economy is clearly one fac-tor”
in this application upswing —
such a large increase in fact, that for
the first time, the organization has
instated a waitlist for the 2009-2010
school year.
“The turmoil in the market has
opened up a lot of possibilities for
people in terms of options they would
consider professionally,” Anderson
said. “And we’ve seen unprecedent-ed
interest in Teach For America this
year.”
But other members of the Southern
Teach for America recruits on the rise
Despite an LAUSD hiring
freeze, the organization is
seeing an influx of new recruits.
| see teach, page 3 |
| see classes, page 3 |
Nationwide
USC
36% increase in applications from 2007 to 2008
18,000 applicants in 2007
25,000 applicants in 2008
2,900 applicants accepted in 2007
3,700 projected applicants accepted in 2008
Sept. 19 deadline: 64 applicants
Nov. 7 deadline: 76 applicants
Jenny McCorkle | Daily Trojan
SPORTS EXTRA PAGE 7